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Originally Posted by MRM

I kind of just did this in real life. A corporate client found out that their deceased mother had lost track of some stock that had been abandoned to the state. I was asked to help the client go through the process to reclaim the abandoned property.

I started by going to the state's abandoned property website. For fun, I looked up my last name. I didn't find anything I lost, but someone with my last name had a whole web page full of abandoned stocks and dividends worth several thousand dollars. A quick web search showed that a relative with the same last name still lived at the owner's address (I think the owner passed away and the living relative is her husband). I didn't think it was right that they had unclaimed stock that they could get back just by filling out a form, so I sent him a letter telling him about the abandoned property. I told him who I was and how I stumbled onto the lost property, so I hope he really does retrieve it and doesn't think it was a scam.

Nice, I've found a little (money) in the past, and my mom found some in my dad's name after he passed. Very nice of you to notify them.